Pusher (1996)
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
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"Pusher," which plays out over one week's time that is announced by daily title cards, is like a Copenhagen cinema verité edition of "Mean Streets."
In 1996, the world was in the grip of a certain filmmaker called Quentin Tarantino, and a certain pair of movies called Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction , and in both America and Europe young male filmmakers were intoxicated by the former video store clerk's mixture of pop culture allusion, abstracted dialogue and characters, and brutal gangland violence filtered back and forth to the point where it isn't "romanticised", but certainly made "cool".
In 1996, the world was in the grip of a certain filmmaker called Quentin Tarantino, and a certain pair of movies called Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction , and in both America and Europe young male filmmakers were intoxicated by the former video store clerk's mixture of pop culture allusion, abstracted dialogue and characters, and brutal gangland violence filtered back and forth to the point where it isn't "romanticised", but certainly made "cool".